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单词 gelatia
释义

gelatian.

Forms: Also Middle English gelacia.
Etymology: perhaps an etymologizing perversion (after Latin gelāre to freeze) of Latin chalazias, < Greek χάλαζα hail.
Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > less identifiable gems > [noun] > white or colourless stone
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. l. 853 Gelacia is a white precious stoon yschape as an hayl stoon and is so colde þat it neuer heteþ wiþ fyre.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest i. f. 9 Gelacia is a Gem verie white, hauing the..bignesse and quantitie of an Hailestone.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 101 The Topaze, Turches, and Gelatia.
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